In Buddhism Nirvana is the ultimate goal of life, beyond rational thought and language, a state of transcendence. If this, in any way, can come close to the concept of Punk, Kurt Cobain’s interpretation could arouse aesthetic suggestions of contemporary spirituality.

While seekers of the truth strive for the absolute through discipline, long contemplative meditations, and reciting mantras; on the other, extremely sensitive rockstars tend it with dissoluteness, evoke it with dramatic force and with bold sense of poetry. Sound patterns, electric guitar riffs, existential verses, obsessive chorus, finally reach millions of people, becoming interpreters of a collective state of mind. Becoming a religion.

“Nirvana is therefore a spiritual concept that sounds kind of Grunge. I’ve been working on the paintings of this sequence with the same iridescent spirit; with a pictorial approach somewhat punk, instinctive and immediate, but at the same time contemplative. I conceived it as a single work. Imagining the sound, its shape, its tension, its colour; sometimes quiescent, sometimes rhythmic, as within a mystical composition, or an electric guitar solo”.